Chapter 651, Strange Road

In September 10242, more than two years had passed since the great victory of Aramita.

Father Sidov was fighting on the planet Chitlu VI to clear the last important stronghold of the infected.

He led the Aramita Legion, the 147th Army, and the 301st Mechanic Division.

To be honest, Sidov was not familiar with this kind of corps organization.

The Alfonzo Cult did not organize its troops in this way before.

The army of the Alfonzo Cult has a strong religious legion nature, often adding many beautiful prefixes and suffixes, and then compiling them in binary mechanical language with so-called mechanical beauty.

Inside the Mechanicus, these characters with "mechanical beauty" are used to address each other and mobilize troops. To the outside, the translated corps names are used, such as "High Precision Worm Cavalry Regiment" and "Glory Gear Corps of the God of All Machines"...

This name looks messy? So what? It's an external command system anyway. Isn't it normal that it can't command the army of the Mechanicus? If the command is not smooth, then it is not smooth. Who asked you to command? As long as the Mechanicus can only be smooth, it will be fine.

However, in the current situation, this set of rules is no longer feasible.

Can the Alliance tolerate the local troops formed by the Aramita sect, which it has supported, being so disobedient and difficult to command?

While the Aramita sect was suppressing the rebellion, the Alliance's military and political departments sent a large number of military and political commissars, and many officers from the army were transferred to the newly formed Crusaders, and they were organized according to the Alliance Army, basically abandoning the original set of things of the Mechanicus.

This actually aroused a lot of dissatisfaction within the Aramita sect.

All along, our Mechanicus and the Empire have been on an equal footing. Isn't one of the heads of the Empire's double-headed eagle symbol our Mechanicus? How can the Crusaders be reorganized according to the way of your army!

However, this is what I think in my heart, and at most I talk about it with my mouth, but my body still obediently and honestly follows the Alliance's plan?

In the past, Sidov was also like this.

After all, the Alliance's home base is too far away from the Alfonzo Star Region, with two star regions in between, and it takes at least four months to travel there. It's good enough to have some trade exchanges, but does the Alliance want to directly rule the entire star region?

In the end, it still depends on us?

However, these ideas were greatly changed after Sidov participated in an ideological training arranged by the Alliance Military and Political Department.

He began to think carefully about faith, future, people, technological development, personal ambitions...

These things kept churning in his mind, and finally made him realize the question of "what kind of future should we go to?"

We should follow the Alliance and Gu Hang!

That is the best embodiment of faith in the God of All Machines!

After thinking through these, Sidov even felt that a lot of knowledge that he didn't understand before was integrated all at once.

In the past, his position in Aramita was "combat priest", which was at the same level as the mechanical priest.

Of course, the people of the Mechanicus have nothing to do with kindness, but showing cruelty is not the same as being good at fighting. In fact, they generally don't like to participate in battles and wars in person. They usually give orders indifferently, and have their own chaplains and followers to solve the problem.

Like Sidov, he is actually more interested in fighting and war command - at least more interested than his colleagues.

He is indeed one of the few people in the Mechanicus who is willing to join the army and command operations.

However, he must admit that he is still not comparable to those real generals.

But it was after participating in the training of the Alliance Military and Political Department that he suddenly felt that something in his mind had been integrated, and even the machine soul in the built-in logic chip was cheering. A lot of military command knowledge that I didn't understand before was understood in a very short time.

Thank you to the God of All Machines and Governor Gu.

Since then, he has become a staunch supporter of the Alliance in the Aramita Sect.

This identity also allowed him to be promoted quickly.

The right stance can play a huge role at this special time.

He was soon promoted to a "division commander" and also obtained the status of lieutenant colonel of the alliance. He led a chaplain army and was transferred to the planet Qitulu VI to participate in the battle.

This planet is very close to the forging world-Feng'ao. After Feng'ao was destroyed by the extinction order, the loyalists of Qitulu VI who were not infected finally stopped wavering and tried their best to break through the obstacles and get in touch with the alliance.

The newly formed chaplain army that Xidov belongs to is here to assist the local planet in fighting.

Qitulu VI is not a very large and rich planet. This is a resource planet with a large number of power plants built on it. By collecting stellar light energy, converting electrical energy, and then converting it into energy crystals.

The energy plant is the largest industry of Qitulu VI, and the others are built around this.

The total population of the planet is only about 700 million.

Three Alliance armies and two Aramita Crusader army groups, totaling 46 million troops, were deployed here. With the orbital support of a destroyer, they helped the local survivors and reversed the situation in two years.

Now, the war situation has been roughly stabilized.

Although the number of infected people is estimated to be at least 300 million, the liberated survivors have also armed an army of tens of millions. Those infected people are not strong in terms of equipment and the strength of individual mutations. The number alone does not mean much, and their fate is to be slaughtered by the Alliance Army and the Skitarii.

There are more than 200 million survivors. In addition to recruiting a large number of troops, the remaining people have begun to restart various energy factories, and the entire planet is gradually rebuilding and reproducing.

As long as the situation continues like this, the threat will become smaller and smaller, and Chitlu VI will eventually return to peace.

Sidov has personally experienced all of this in the past two years.

He is full of pride.

Since he changed his mind after training in the Alliance Military and Political Department, he feels that he is on the road to practicing his ideas. This makes him feel very satisfied, and he is more convinced and pious about all this.

But since this morning, he always feels a little uneasy, as if something big is going to happen.

He is a little suspicious.

He and his troops were carrying out the task of entering an occupied factory area and clearing out all the infected people there.

He had carried out this kind of mission many times in the past two years. There were risks and difficulties, and they often had to face enemies that were many times their own... However, they were not the ones that the infected could touch in terms of equipment and training level. They were always able to defeat the many with the few.

That was not even a victory worth boasting about.

Could there be an accident this time?

Was there something wrong with the intelligence? Was the number of enemies more than the "no more than 150,000" mentioned in the data? Or were there a large number of advanced infected bodies among the enemies? Or did they have equipment levels that exceeded the norm?

With a drum in his heart, he naturally needed to be cautious when carrying out the mission.

He arranged for the troops to slow down their march and actively sent out many reconnaissance companies, driving reconnaissance vehicles or walking secretly, expanding far away to ensure that they would not be ambushed on the way; at the same time, they also had to investigate the situation in the target area and constantly report the situation. Once an unexpected strong enemy appeared, they had to prepare and plan in advance.

However, nothing happened.

It was so quiet that it was a little scary.

On the way of the large army, even scattered infected people were not seen.

The intelligence sent back by the reconnaissance company also said that they saw nothing.

It was extremely abnormal.

Logically speaking, in an area with about 150,000 infected people, there would definitely be scattered infected people on the way to the area, and it was unlikely to be so quiet all the time.

What went wrong?

He asked the troops to slow down further, and even asked two infantry regiments to set up defense lines on the spot to ensure the stability of the rear.

At this time, the reconnaissance company that rushed to the front sent back a piece of information that made Sidov shudder.

The scouts said that they finally saw the enemy in the target factory area.

Their number was surprisingly large, but also surprisingly small.

The so-called small number was that there were some infected people with guard roles around, with only 10,000 or 20,000 people.

The scouts managed to go around and saw at least 200,000 infected people gathered together. They were densely packed and jumped into one temporary "water pit" after another in an orderly manner.

These puddles were turbid in color, with thick green and red liquids mixed together. The "people" who jumped in floated and sank for a while, and then disappeared silently. Those dissolved biological liquids were transported to an uncertain area along the peristaltic pipes. That direction was the hive area with the largest number and the densest number of infected people in Qitulu VI.

What are these infected people doing?

Sidov is not an ignorant person. As a mechanical priest, he has a lot of knowledge. In the era of the Alfonzo sect, the most popular and most popular knowledge in the entire sect was the knowledge related to the void zerg.

He was not very interested in this, but he also learned a lot from what he saw and heard.

Now the answer to this phenomenon is very clear: the infected have been summoned by the genes and are being digested actively. Those thick liquids should be the so-called biomass.

The biomass is being concentrated through the pipeline and concentrated in the core area of ​​the central hive.

As for what these infected people want to do with such a huge amount of biomass?

This answer really did not occur to Sidov.

What is the use of biomass? As far as he knows, infected people cannot use biomass directly, they can only turn themselves into biomass. Only Zerg with hatching ability can use biomass to build biological weapons.

But Sidov has been fighting on Strange Road VI for two years and has not seen a real Void Zerg. According to the intelligence, there should be no Void Zerg on this planet.

In this case, what do infected people do by turning themselves into biomass?

While reporting the intelligence he had found to his superiors, he thought carefully for a while and made a decision.

No matter what the enemy wants to do, just stop them.

Biomass is always easier to deal with than infected people. No matter how weak the latter is, they still need a bullet. The opponent may have a few broken guns in his hand, and his side may suffer some casualties. As for biomass? It's just a lump of organic liquid. Once the fire burns and the high temperature comes down, a large area will be inactivated.

While the enemy is gathering densely and the guards are few in number, why not bombard them and cut off the biomass transmission channel?

The artillery deployed and began to bombard the factory area fiercely. The artillery regiment and the artillery companies of each regiment were all mobilized, and more than a thousand cannons of various calibers fired wildly at the factory area.

Those huge steel and concrete buildings are very strong, but under the intensive bombardment, they will still be damaged and collapsed to some extent.

If one collapsed, a digester was destroyed.

At the same time, the infantry took armored vehicles and rushed forward quickly. Under the cover of artillery fire, they would eliminate the guards and eventually blow up the buildings one by one, or enter the buildings, kill all the unarmed infected people waiting to be digested, and then destroy the digester.

At the same time, the reconnaissance company that arrived first also applied for action.

When the battle started and even when it was fierce, these hidden scouts also cut off the pipeline buried in the ground that transported biomass to the distant central nest.

The whole battle went quite smoothly. They eliminated this group of enemies without much effort.

However, Sidov was not happy.

Instead, he was a little anxious.

The new order from his superiors arrived soon.

His troops were cancelled from the rest time originally scheduled after the mission was completed. His superiors asked him to continue moving forward immediately, and the target was still a digester.

In the next 72 hours, Sidov's 301st Mechanic Division had almost no time to stop. Each regiment and company only took a few hours of rest at most. Several logistics battalions were already busy, constantly transporting ammunition and battlefield food supplies from the rear to ensure the supply of the front-line troops.

They have already taken down many digesters, both large and small.

Moreover, they encountered some other friendly troops in the middle and found that they were doing similar things.

The battle was easy, but it was urgent and tiring, and the troops suffered some unnecessary casualties. Some commanders were still dissatisfied and didn't understand why this happened. They suggested that the troops should take a rest.

But on the one hand, the superiors' orders were very urgent, and on the other hand, Sidov himself could feel that something was wrong, so he suppressed all these opinions.

As it turned out, he was right.

When he personally led the divisional guard team to conduct a combat attack again, Sidov heard a series of muffled sounds coming from the distant infection center.

The earth shook slightly.

Sidov found a high place and looked there. He saw one biological ship after another rising from the ground and flying towards the dim sky!

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I am guilty... I fell asleep after writing last night and thought I would take a rest before continuing...

I will write another chapter later to make up for yesterday's broken promise.